Eax causes the game to freeze every few seconds

[c0mputer-fr0d]

I put on eax and I do say it makes the sounds orgasmic but sadly it causes the game to freeze and I can't enjoy it then. as soon as I take it off the freezing stops happening.

[New Horizon]

EAX is only supported on Creative Cards, but TDM missions do not yet support any environmental audio.

 

Long story short...it's a known issue that it doesn't work. We hope to have the open source EFX implemented in the not too distant future, so that ALL players can enjoy environmental audio...not just creative card users.

[vvGarrettvv]

nope! its not working. couldn`t there be a little patch with a new "settings" -screen with

no EAX-option ? Many people stepped into this bug by enabling this option (like me as I began play TDM)

At the current state it is a complete useless option & failure origin.

[stumpy]

if you have a creative card with EAX turned on in the dark mod, then the game pauses everytime you go through a visportal as the driver reloads all the sounds, this is a problem with the drivers for the creative card and not the game, and if you are using a old version of windows, like xp you can get a BSOD when it happens too often, windows 7 just reports a problem and closes thedarkmod.exe file. Visportals are usually at every door.

 

You can turn off EAX in TDM settings.

[PsymH]

Strange. I have a X-Fi Xtreme Gamer, EAX turned on and can play all missions... so far at least which I tried... No matter if I using Win7 or Win8.1 (x64)

Edited February 22, 2014 by PsymH

[vvGarrettvv]

if you have a creative card with EAX turned on in the dark mod, then the game pauses everytime you go through a visportal as the driver reloads all the sounds, this is a problem with the drivers for the creative card and not the game, and if you are using a old version of windows, like xp you can get a BSOD when it happens too often, windows 7 just reports a problem and closes thedarkmod.exe file. Visportals are usually at every door.

 

You can turn off EAX in TDM settings.

 

I know. But the first time I installed TDM years ago, it takes some time for me locating the bug, because if there`s an option which fits to my hardware I enable it. Why shouldn`t I?

And so I enabled all the stuff including EAX 4.0. And after I disabled feature by feature I get it that the EAX is the source of error.

Even if there are some people who can leave the option enabled [ strange enough ], the precentage of gamers, who stepped into the bug will be 95%+.

Sooner or later the option mask has to be renewed eanyway, when EFX is the soundstandard in TDM. So wiping out the EAX-option is kind of mandatory.